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week old, when one was found dead, but the other lived for 

 a* fortnight. 



The three chicks which I exhibit here to-night are in 

 three interesting stages — the first just hatched, the second 

 seven days old with the quill-feathers commencing to 

 develop, and the third with practically full wings, 14 days 

 old. 



The egg of this species is a beautiful object, of a bright 

 pinkish chocolate, and oval in shape. 



Mr. JN". F. Ticehurst exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Walter 

 Fields of Ore, near Hastings, a nest and three eggs of 

 the Marsh- Warbler {Acrocephalus palustris). The nest was 

 situated in a low bush near a stream on a farm abutting 

 on the marshes at Pett Level, Sussex, and contained four 

 fresh eggs, one of which had been broken. It was found on 

 July 2nd, 1903. 



Mr. E. W. Harper sent for exhibition three living 

 examples of the Large-billed Weaver-bird (Ploceus meya- 

 rhynchus) and remarked : — 



" The birds were obtained by me in July at Bareilly, 

 N.W. India, having been captured close by in the Kumaon 

 District. In his ' Fauna of British India/ Mr. Gates makes 

 this species synonymous with P. atriyula, but it may easily 

 be distinguished from the latter by its larger size and 

 entirely yellow under surface. Mr. Hume's types in the 

 British Museum are either females, or males in undress 

 (i. e. winter) plumage. The third and fourth specimens 

 recorded were obtained by Mr. F. Finn in the Calcutta 

 Bazaar and came from N.W. India. 



" These birds were figured in ' The Ibis/ and one of them 

 is still living in the Parrot-house at the Zoological Gardens, 

 Regent's Park. 



" Last summer I brought to England a fifth example of 

 this species, a male in full summer plumage. The Indian 

 menagerie on view at Earl's Court Exhibition last year 

 contained 9 or 10 of these birds, including examples of both 



